Paperhanger&#39;s brush and roller



March 12, 1940. s. s. KOZUB PAPERHANGERS BRUSH AND ROLLER Filed Sept. 20, 1938 A ttorneys Patented Mar. 12, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT orFic 1 Claim.

This invention relates to a paperhangers brush and seam roller, the general object of the invention being to provide meanswhereby a seam roller is removably attached to the brush so that the paperhanger will always have the roller ready for use and need not have to hunt through his pockets for the roller when he wishes to roll the seam of thepaper.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawing wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which:

Figure l is a side view of the brush showing two sockets therein with the shaft of a roller supported in one socket.

Figure 2 is a front view of the roller.

Figure 3 is a top plan view of the roller.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary sectional View showing how the shaft from the roller fits in the socket.

In this drawing the numeral I indicates the handle part of the brush used by a paperhanger and the numeral 2 indicates the bristles thereof. In carrying out my invention I form a socket 3 in the curved corner part 4 at each end of the handle part I and a bushing 5 is pressed into said socket and is held therein by the screws 6 passing through a flange 1 formed on the outer end of the bushing and said screws extending into the handle part I. The bushing is provided intermediate its end with a groove! which is of substantially semi-circular shape in cross section. The roller is shown at 8 and is carried by a yoke 9 and a shank l 0 is connected with the yoke and is adapted to enter either one of the bushings 5. Both the bushings and the shank H) are of rectangular shape in cross section to prevent turning movement of the shank ill in the bushing. The shank i0 is removably held in the bushing by a ball I l engaging a part of the groove 1 and pressed into the groove by a' spring l2 engaging the ball and held in place by a threaded plug l3 threaded into the bore M which extends transversely across the shank l0 and receives the ball and the spring. By adjusting the plug IS the tension of the spring can be adjusted to regulate the force with which the ball will engage the, groove.

5 Thus a seam roller is attached to the handle of the brush so that after the brush has been used to put a strip of paper on a wall by slightly turning the wrist the paperhanger can bring the roller against the seam between the two strips of paper to roll the same and as the roller is attached to the brush there is no danger of the roller becoming lost or the paperhanger losing time in trying to find the roller in his pockets.v

The shank ill can be placed in either one of the sockets 3 or if desired two types of rollers can be attached to the brush, such as the cylindrical seam. roller or a lap roller.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages and novel features of the invention will be readily apparent.

It is to be understood that changes may be made in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts provided that such changes fall within the scope of the appended claim.

Having described the claimed as new'is:

In a device of the class described, an elongated fiat handle having a recess in one of the corners at one side of the handle, the wall of said recess being of arcuate shape and said handle having a socket therein of square shape in cross section, which opens out through the central portion of said arcuate wall, said socket extending at an incline to the axis of the handle and sloping invention, what is toward the adjacent end of the handle, a bushing fitting in said socket and also of square shape in cross section and said bushing having an endless groove therein extending across intermediate portions of its four walls, a shank having a yoke at one end, a seam roller rotatably carried by the yoke, said shank being of square shape in cross section to fit in the bushing and a detent car ried by the shank for engaging a portion of the groove to detachably hold the shank in the bushing in the socket with the roller partly fitting in the arcuate recess.

STANLEY S. KOZUB. 

